Georgia officials delay execution that would have been videotaped to gather evidence on drug

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Georgia officials delay execution that would have been videotaped to gather evidence on drug
By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, July 21, 3:08 AM

JACKSON, Ga. — Georgia abruptly postponed the lethal injection of a death row inmate who would have been the subject of the nation’s first videotaped execution in nearly two decades.

Andrew DeYoung was scheduled to die Wednesday night, but state corrections officials delayed carrying out the sentence until Thursday as they tried to figure out the logistics of recording an event that is usually only witnessed by prison officials, journalists and family members.

The video recording was requested by attorneys for another Georgia death row inmate who wanted evidence to show that Georgia’s reconfigured three-drug lethal injection procedure does not adequately sedate the inmate.

State prosecutors opposed it because they said the inmates have failed to prove that the drug phenobarbital causes undue suffering, and because they worried it could open the door to more executions being recorded.





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[dipsydoodle]

1. Maybe they were trying to decide

where the adverts should be...... "And now a message from our sponsors"

Maybe also negotiating whether the can on the side will be Coke or Pepsi. :sarcasm:

[greiner3]

2. The new porn?

Imagine how many bootleg copies would be sold to the good ole boys in GA who then would would choke the old chicken in time with the video. I include many in the state's legislature with this prediction.

[Loki]

3. A snuff film

brought to you by the State of Georgia.

[buckrogers1965]

4. Total lack of respect.

It is bad enough that they are murdering someone in cold blood. Do they really have to humiliate that person by video taping it and letting the perverts that get off on snuff films watch it again and again?

[dbackjon]

7. Note - it is another inmate's lawyer asking for it

Not the State

[buckrogers1965]

8. I don't care who is asking for it.

It shouldn't be done.

And I don't support the death penalty and I don't think it should ever be filmed.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[RebelOne]

6. This was just on the local news channel WSB in Atlanta.

He is to be executed tonight at 7 p.m.